Dear Students,
I read the book 39 Clues Book One The Maze Of Bones By Rick Riordan. It was a great book. I give it a rating of 8.5/10. This book is a series. I think it will eventually have 39 books in the end. All of the books are by different authors, but I don’t like that part, because the author in the other books kind of seem out of tune with the book sometimes.
The genre of this book is science fiction because there is no such thing as the 39 clues. This book is Historical Fiction also because it has characters in the past. It talks a lot about Benjamin Franklin.
The theme of this book is earn it. Don’t have something handed to you. If you want to get something, work for it and earn what you are working for, you will feel a lot better about what you got if you do.
This book is about Amy and Dan, their grandma just died and they discover that they are Cahills. Every historical figure is a Cahill, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, all of them Cahills. There are four branches of Cahills, because there were 4 brothers and sisters, who had a fight and tried to kill each other back in the 1500’s. The branches are Lucian, Tomas, Janus and the Ekaterina.
What passage struck me from this book was “What you now hold is a bank voucher. It shall only be activated if and when you renounce your claim to the challenge. If you choose so, each of you may walk out of this room with one million dollars and never have to think of Grace Cahill and her last wishes again. Or… you may choose a clue-a single clue that will be your only inheritance. No money. No property. Just a clue that might lead you to the most important treasure in the world and make you powerful beyond belief… Or it might kill you. One million dollars or the clue. You have five minutes to decide.” This passage starts the whole thing. It is when we discover the first clue which is:
RESOLUTION:
The fine print to guess,
Seek out Richard S________.
Dan and Amy take the challenge and so do the other 6 teams. Team One Ian and Natalie Kabra, Team Two, The Holts, Team Three, Alistair Oh, Team Four The Starling Triplets, Team Five Irini Spasky, Team Six Jonah Wizard and Broderick Wizard, Team Seven Amy and Dan Cahill.
Read this book. I recommend it for anyone all ages. It is a great book, the first book is the best of them all. You will have no problems of finding a book to read with this series, it already has 8 books, the ninth coming out in May. I give this book a 8.5 out of 10 rating because it is intriguing.
Sincerely, Ty F.
